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If you're an NPR listener you're probably familiar with the StoryCorps project, where individuals are recorded telling a story from their life (usually to another individual). Some people think they're kind of sappy and not "news" but I make a point to listen to them every week while driving to work. This week's episode for Mother's Day got me tearing up on my commute: http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182636770/preserving-the-motherhood-advice-and-memories-of-a-mom Daughter records a StoryCorps session with her mom in 2008 while she's pregnant and mom has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She's now recording a session five years later after her mom has passed away. I would suggest it to listen to the audio instead of reading the text. I was fine when I was listening until they started singing the lullaby together. Then the tears came (while I was driving too). These things always effect me because of the audio. The text has only a slight emotional response on me but hearing the mother and daughter conversing and singing together, knowing that the mother is soon to lose all her memories and abilities (and ultimately passed away three years later), just made me lose it.
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